Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus
There are now so many companies vying to be the next YouTube, it's easy to lose track of them all. So let's take a look at the entire online video industry and categorize the major players. Our thanks to Ali Dagli of Savvian, for providing us a lot of the useful data listed here.
In this post we've summarized the latest video industry innovations under the following categories:
Video sharing - and particularly YouTube - have been the poster boys of the online video industry so far. Video sharing sites allow you to upload your videos and share them with others. But even if you are not a content producer, you can watch others movies. So this is a very consumer-oriented industry that has been popularized via blog-based viral marketing.
Some of the upcomers in video sharing are: Vimeo, VideoJug, Kewego, China's Yoqoo, Revver,Veoh, iBloks, VidiLife, Blip.TV, VodPod, Fliqz.
Image from Go2Web20.net
Do you think you can legally host your commercial videos on YouTube or MetaCafe? The short answer is no. For professional use, you'll need to contact intermediary companies to do this job for you. Their main duty is to connect publishers, video creators and advertisers.
Other players include thePlatform and The FeedRoom, which empowers top companies like HP, Wal-Mart, Sun, USA Today.
Video eCommerce sites allow you to legally stream the latest cinema movies and TV shows from your computer.
This is another crowded market. Other players include MovieLink, CinemaNow, MarketBeam and the video eCommerce offerings of bigcos like Apple, Real and WalMart. Also, the Venice Project (Joost) from the Skype founders is targeting this market. Check out a recent Techcrunch comparison to review some of companies mentioned under this category.
You have videos, but how do you edit them? Are you willing to stick with desktop apps and pay hundreds of dollars in license fees? The Web is the answer again. The following sites are generally known to be good companions to video sharing sites.
Other players include, but not limited to, MovieMasher, MotionBox, Canopus and Avid.
Another hot area is rich media advertising. This is the field that will pump blood (=money) to all other services. Rich Media Advertising can consist of advanced computer science techniques like voice recognition (speech to text) and visual object recognition. We will just list the names, as most of them are very early stage.
Google and AdBrite are the major players. aQuantive (a $2B company traded at NASDAQ), KlipMart, PostRoller, eyeWonder, eyeBlaster, DoubleClick, adInterax (acquired by Yahoo! last year), padaddies, pointroll are other players.
Peer to peer is taking an important place in video sharing. Video sharing requires large bandwidth, which is why the burn rate of these sites is very high and only the VC backed ones survive. P2P is an answer to this problem, by spreading the bandwidth weight to clients using this system. There have been some recent large investments in companies working in this field.
So who do you think serves you all these videos? Video hosting is not an easy job!
Others include Savvis and RawFlow
Blogs and photologs have already taken over many peoples lives - being an excellent way to share, communicate and self-express. And now with the commodization of digital cameras, comes the vlogs - a.k.a. video blogs.. They are either for fun or self expression, but a big industry can blossom here - there are a lot of opportunities. Tomorrows vlogs, for example, are candidates to replace your favourite daily TV shows. And popular vlogs don't just attract ads, but they also hold the potential to sign partnership deals with video sharing sites. Examples:
The list is certainly not complete. And this categorization is subject to change, for example with upcoming stealth mode startups. The innovation and opportunities in the online video industry are endless. Please help us take this list to the next level, by noting other companies you know of in the comments.
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good job.
Posted by: focsa | February 13, 2007 1:20 PMthanx
Yes, this is one of the types of post that keeps RWW one of the subscriptions I keep, no matter how brutally I prune my blogroll.
Posted by: Andrew | February 13, 2007 1:30 PMExactly the kind of posts I like to read (and write (; ). Great roundup.
Posted by: franticindustries | February 13, 2007 1:58 PMYou are missing a big one: Webshots
Posted by: Narendra | February 13, 2007 1:59 PMThanks Narendra, I've added Webshots.
Posted by: Richard MacManus | February 13, 2007 2:08 PMIn the future, our economy will come to a screeching halt because the only thing people will be doing is uploading or downloading videos.
Posted by: Kind And Thoughtful | February 13, 2007 2:23 PMI'm surprised you didn't mention one of my favorite clients, IVT: the webcasting provider released the first ever "video webcasting for dummies" product last month--a do-it-yourself video webcasting and podcasting application called Studio. As you no doubt have noted, there are a lot of players in the consumer space and in the business space--Studio is basically the business video answer, for the masses. Check it out, it's a pretty straightforward tool.
For the record, round-ups are also what I appreciate about Read/Write, as it helps cut down on the clutter. I can't understand how anyone can get work done all day and still pay attention to the zillions of updates from some of those other blogs...
Posted by: Matt Mendolera | February 13, 2007 2:51 PMHi,
it seems out Twango (www.twango.com) is missing out. I don't know how big their userbase is, but they have a lot of nice features.
Posted by: Richard | February 13, 2007 2:52 PMGreat coverage of the industry. Not every player, but extremely comprehensive in showing how it all works.
This will take a while to digest.
Great Research Emre, Thanks so much.
Posted by: Kin Lane | February 13, 2007 3:30 PMI'm curious to know if you felt a product like HelloWorld fit into this category. I mean I think it does, but I'm not sure how it compares.
helloworld.com
Posted by: Dave C. | February 13, 2007 3:44 PMAlso have a look at itiva.com as a P2p type of contender.
Posted by: 24pfilms | February 13, 2007 6:26 PMawesome job. very useful.
Sandeep
Posted by: sandeep arora | February 13, 2007 6:45 PMhttp://www.onlinevideopunch.com
covering internet video industry
That clarifies a few things. A wonderfully thorough post. Thanks.
Posted by: Benjamin | February 13, 2007 10:01 PMI think http://www.compfused.com and http://www.viddler.com probably deserve a spot on this list as well. :) Haven't heard of a few on here either though. Good list :) Thanks.
Posted by: david | February 13, 2007 10:20 PMWant to Save Google Videos to your hard drive to play later? Try this web tool
Download Google Videos
Posted by: download google videos | February 13, 2007 10:30 PMGreat entry here. You might add Vidavee to the intermediaries section - they enable video, customers include Huffington Post and manandwife.tv
www.vidavee.com
Posted by: Anthony | February 13, 2007 10:38 PMWould love to show you SplashCast if you haven't seen it yet - http://splashcastmedia.com - could be placed in several of those categories.
Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick | February 13, 2007 10:48 PMAdd Cuts in video editing.
Posted by: Harry | February 14, 2007 12:47 AMAlso Dabble is not at all video editing- actually it is video searching (as Mary Hodder would be glad to point out).
This space is getting chaotic - nice effort
Posted by: Ran | February 14, 2007 12:53 AMGreat summary, though I'm missing twistage and magnify.
You should add bubbleply.com to video creation and editing.
Posted by: gerry | February 14, 2007 1:57 AMWhy didn't you include Yahoo! Video in the Video Search category ? Video Search has been available on Yahoo! for years and you can find videos from everywhere on the web (from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, Yahoo! Music, ... any website).
Posted by: Michael | February 14, 2007 2:25 AMI'm surprised he didn't mention anything about sites like http://www.streamick.com or http://www.channelchooser.com .. I think they might be included in that list aswell..
Posted by: stef | February 14, 2007 3:01 AMGreat post by the way, thanks.
For Long Tail Internet TV Series he didn't meantion sites like our own Network2 - http://network2.tv
Posted by: Jeff Pulver | February 14, 2007 3:51 AMHi
Under Video Creation, you might want to add Celtx - the open source media pre-production application.
Which just so happens to be releasing a new version today.
Thanks
Posted by: Fred | February 14, 2007 5:20 AMNot sure how you forgot eBaumsworld.com? They basically pioneered the genre, and remain at the top despite the sudden hoopla over online video.
Maybe they need a pretty web2.0 logo so you could include them in your misinformed "industry" article.
Now we need a "Wannabe Industry Experts Who Spam Digg With Buzzword Articles Yet Lack Any Experience Or Actual Knowledge In Said Industry Index"
Posted by: infoflux | February 14, 2007 5:26 AMCheck out www.PodZinger.com for audio and video search. They use speech to text technology to search the entire content of video so you don't have to rely on user-generated tags to find what you are looking for.
Posted by: Kelby | February 14, 2007 5:31 AMYou also forgot Peer Impact who where the first P2P company to sign with a Major Studio back in November of 2005 (NBC\Universal) and then Warner and FOX in July of 2006 .\
Peer Impact rents Hollywood movies on a pay view basis and has a innovative revenue sharing model where its customers are paid for sharing content that purchased through the network.
http://www.peerimpact.com
You also forgot Joost and Bubblegum.
Bittorrent Inc doesnt even have a product on the market as of this month so its movie download product is essentially vaporware.
Posted by: Matt_ | February 14, 2007 5:41 AMHow about Scouta . From what I understand they are soon to launch and differentiate themselves from any of the areas you mention. They are about video and audio recommendations as opposed to searching. I'm a beta tester and I find I'm spending less time searching for content and just using the videos recommended to me. There is so much content out there now that it's a daunting task finding videos that appeal to you.
From the Scouta blog
Search is incredibly important to content these days. There is so much that we rely on it to find everything–I do anyway. However, it’s not the only way to find great content. In fact recommendations make a much more compelling way to find content, especially audio and video. Whether a friend mentions a great new show, or a group you below to suggests some great listening, recommendations are usually more reliable that stumbling around search results: especially with so much content online.
That’s why we’ve built a few ways to be given recommendations for online audio and video. Imagine turning on your television and having a bunch of relevant shows queued up waiting for you to watch, ones that you didn’t know about, but when you watch them you realise they match your tastes or interests. That’s what Scouta is aiming for.
Posted by: Bronwen | February 14, 2007 5:45 AMooops Bablegum....
www.joost.com
www.bablegum.com
Posted by: Matt_ | February 14, 2007 5:46 AMSorry try this link for scouta and just incase, :)
Posted by: Bronwen | February 14, 2007 5:57 AMhttp://www.scouta.com/
http://www.clipfish.com a german site, has already tv commercials. don't ask me where the money comes from, but it seems very successfull.
Posted by: ccarpo | February 14, 2007 6:12 AMhttp://www.emokoo.com came across this the other day and they seem to be allowing you to bring all of your viedos from sites listed above together.
Posted by: john | February 14, 2007 6:15 AMHi Richard,
Thanks for including Dabble.
We've actually indexed almost 8 million videos for search, playlisting and social interaction, including a wiki style read/write ability for logged in users to edit the records of each video.
Was thinking that maybe we belonged in Search or if you make it, a "discovery" category.. as we think discovery is where it's at.
Thanks,
Posted by: Mary Hodder | February 14, 2007 6:15 AMmary
I assume you mean limelight networks, not limelight the editing house?
http://www.limelightnetworks.com/
Google is a magical thing!
Posted by: CharlesV | February 14, 2007 6:29 AMWhile these search sites are cool - like how Blinkx.com indexes a site based off of its audio, it seems like this is largely irrelevant to todays internet video market. They want torrents of tv shows or they want the hottest videos. It seems like search is limited to finding previously viewed videos or ones they've heard about.
It seems the future of video is in making things smaller, cutting away the bs. I think more niche sites will arise that actually qualify their content and serve only the best on more specific genre's. These will be the sites that "cross the chasm" into true mainstream. Sites like DoHowTo.com come to mind in that it cleanly lets you access thousands of software videos by program and subcategory. No bs, just straight to the exact piece of content you want.
Posted by: CharlesR | February 14, 2007 6:55 AMHere's a new site for Video Sharing.
http://www.yaaway.com
Posted by: Gord Davis | February 14, 2007 7:09 AMNice list, just curious as to why you totally ommited video content producers? You know, the sub-category that actually makes all of these other sub-categories relevant?
Posted by: ashkan karbasfrooshan | February 14, 2007 7:19 AMI'd be remiss if I didn't mention the omission of DivX or Stage6 (www.stage6.com).
If you are concerned at all about the quality of your videos or being able to watch them off of your PC on any of the 70 million DivX devices, then check out Stage6.
Ben...
Posted by: Ben | February 14, 2007 7:26 AMgreat list - would add vidavee and reality digital to the intermediaries.
Posted by: gzino | February 14, 2007 7:26 AMyou missed Sevenload but you shouldn't.
@#30: clipfish is driven by a big german media company also driving some tv stations - doesn't make it really better but.. :)
Posted by: Frank | February 14, 2007 7:26 AMThere is also, mefeedia.com :)
It's a great place for thousands of videobloggers and podcasters and their audiences to connect. We provide a number of tools for the vlogosphere to help videobloggers share and promote their video blogs.
You can ‚ÄúRoll Your Own Channel‚Ä? (your videoblog and podcast ‚Äúinbox‚Ä?) that keeps track of your favorite video and audio shows, updates you automatically when there is a new episode, and then downloads the shows to any place you choose (iPod, PSP, XBox, or even SecondLife)
Posted by: Devlon | February 14, 2007 8:02 AMThis list is Awesome! Talk about inundating! I love seeing more and more outlets, technology, platforms etc. cropping up everywhere. Our company, IndieFlix provides content for so many of these on-line solutions and the more solutions the more opportunity to make money and get more exposure. This gives us the ability to empower an independent filmmaker even more so. While this new frontier is being defined and we wait to see which technology will emerge as best use and practice we have the ability to represent the indie filmmaker and cut a new path not try and get noticed in the dust of the Hollywood Blockbuster! Here's to the evolving present state of chaos and inundation for soon to follow there will be order and clarity. There are a few that didn't make the list but who can keep up? Thank you.
Posted by: Scilla Andreen - IndieFlix | February 14, 2007 9:35 AMVTVLive.com is a startup that puts more focus on quality rather than quantity of videos.
Posted by: VM | February 14, 2007 10:46 AMWhat about vSocial.com?
Posted by: TJ | February 14, 2007 10:52 AMHi Rishard and Emre,
I see the logo for PureVideo.com but no mention of the search destination, itself. For the time being, I believe PureVideo, Pixsy and Blinkx are the only Web-wide video search engines, the others only search for content in their own domains - ie) Google and AOL.
PureVideo is also outperforming Blinkx, Pixsy, TV Eyes, Mama, ClipBlast, and Truveo - see Alexa or Compete. Not bad for launching only 5 months ago. PureVideo is currently the Net's most trafficked Web-wide video search destination so its surprising not to see it mentioned here.
Also I don't see PureVideo Networks' other properties, StupidVideos or GrindTV. GrindTV is now the 20th most trafficked sports site in the US, and number one in action sports, and StupidVideos is ranked 6th in US video marketshare, according to Compete.
All the same, this is a pretty comprehensive list with a lot a new and siginificant players.
Posted by: Megan | February 14, 2007 11:14 AMVery informative - thank you.
Thanks all for your great feedback! We will go through it all and update the post in due course. Keep the suggestions coming....
Posted by: Richard MacManus | February 14, 2007 11:30 AMGreat list, but how about AtomFilms? They survived the dotcom crash and broke the big JibJab animations during the Gore/Bush election. Plus, they have been paying their content creators from the beginning, since 1998.
Posted by: Pete | February 14, 2007 12:07 PMPodcast Spot (http://www.podcastspot.com) is focused on podcasting, but we host video as well as audio. One of the neat features that might warrant a mention on this list is our automatic media conversion. Creators upload their video, and we convert it to a bunch of different formats automatically so that it can be easily transferred to portable devices, etc.
Anyway, excellent list, thanks for posting this!
Posted by: Mack D. Male | February 14, 2007 12:08 PMIn reading through this site, seems one should look at CacheLogic as a new type of CDN for video content delivery...
Posted by: Gary Croke | February 14, 2007 12:11 PMFor video search, there's also purevideo.com that's in beta.
Posted by: mark | February 14, 2007 1:12 PMVery nice list, well done.
Posted by: Mike | February 14, 2007 1:14 PMI might offer one you seem to have missed?
LiveDigital.com, owned by Oversee.net. It's an up and comer no doubt!
Mike
You missed two big ones: LiveVideo.com and Flurl.com.
Posted by: James | February 14, 2007 1:37 PMI would suggest adding RocketStream as an accelerated file transfer solution player.
Posted by: scott shaffer | February 14, 2007 1:51 PMwhat about myspace videos??? i know myspace is mentioned a couple of times, but the in-house video sharing service deserves a mention.
Posted by: jda | February 14, 2007 2:10 PMZe Frank has an awesome vlog at zefrank.com/theshow
Posted by: Dover | February 14, 2007 2:19 PMYou can see another breakdown of video sites that pay here:
Posted by: momeda | February 14, 2007 2:35 PMhttp://www.scottkirsner.com/webvid/gettingpaid.htm
www.yurth.com is still in beta, but should be included in your list.
Posted by: Megan | February 14, 2007 2:45 PMone more to add to video sharing:
Posted by: tkrinsky | February 14, 2007 2:58 PMwww.iklipz.com
new site that focuses specifically on independent film.
Your description data is not accurate.
Posted by: MD | February 14, 2007 3:51 PMGofish is the highest trafficked online video site behind Youtube.
Great list Richard,
uLinkx is just launched (http://www.ulinkx.com). It's new video search engine and video bookmarking website. You can also do LIVE video search on Youtube, MySpace, Google video, Revver, Yahoo, Grouper ..
Along with video search, you can create your own playlist/channel, socialize with friends and syndicate videos using Widget and Google Gadget. Try Google gadget for video Search.
On first page, you can watch popular videos from Youtube, Google, MySpace, Revver, Metacafe, Yahoo at one place.
Posted by: Saket Kumar | February 14, 2007 4:40 PMAnother website that has a comphrensive listing of Web Video Sites is http://www.webvideowatch.com.
Posted by: Webwatch | February 14, 2007 6:20 PMConfirming comment #34, please correct the entry under video streaming to "Limelight Networks" with URL www.limelightnetworks.com (or short version www.llnw.com)
Posted by: Mike Sawyer | February 14, 2007 9:30 PMGreat list!
You also missed german based zeec.de and the international version zeec.net.
Posted by: Felix | February 15, 2007 3:04 AMFANTASTIC WEBSITE YOU HAVE! Please add this site to your list.
www.DTVUS.com - Digital Television. What is it? Feb 17, 2009. The day that will change everything. On that day your free-to-air analog TV signal will dissappear! And in its place will be the newest free-to-air Digital TV signal. Everyone must have a new Digital converter box. And that converter box will have Broadband Internet Capability. So everyone must get another black box. So what? What this means is that everyone will eventually have hi speed internet to their television. And that eventually everyone will watch internet based television! Listen closely. Every domain name is a TV Channel! And you can have your own!. You only have 36 months until this is implemented. But you must start planning NOW. The change to Digital Television is the single most imporatant thing to hit the multimedia world. Billions will be made. And lost. The old business model of "Push Media" is obsolete! People are tired of being told what and when to watch. Media portals like DTVUS.com will allow people to choose what to watch and when to watch it. And you can be a supplier! YOU CAN HAVE YOUR OWN TV CHANNEL !!! FOREVER! See www.DTVUS.com
Posted by: Michael Relfe | February 15, 2007 6:44 AMHi Emre and Richard,
Posted by: Wibke | February 15, 2007 7:11 AMgood overview but I'm missing www.spymac.com. They started with a new revenue-sharing model this January (2007). The best content providers with original selfproduced content can earn money on a daily and monthly base. This way they try to attract the most creative members to become THE creative content community ... check it out
Wibke
Hi - I'm a product manager at AOL, and you may want to add AOL Video and UnCut Video to the list of products across Video eCommerce (we were one of the first destinations to launch download to own movies) and Video Sharing (we launched UnCut Video last year, which is our video sharing service, and includes interesting features like private video sharing, where you can send videos to friends or family and they can't be accessed by others). In addition, AOL Video also has one of the largest libraries of licensed, free content, including thousands of music videos, TV shows, and news clips
Posted by: Scott J. Levine | February 15, 2007 7:22 AMWow. It's a nice list but what blows me away is that in the comments you could basically double the list with additional suggestions. Here's another one, DoGooderTV http://www.dogooder.tv - A video site for nonprofit organizations to showcase their work. Also, VideoEgg is based in San Fran since they got funded.
Posted by: Michael Hoffman | February 15, 2007 9:04 AMHello, Emre and Richard,
You have assembled a very good list and explanation of many of the top players in the video space... With one omission.
And that would be www.searchforvideo.com
www.searchforvideo.com connects consumers with the world's most popular online video content from over 10,000 global sources and millions of video clips. Searchforvideo.com aggregates and indexes references to video clips and video publishers and does not host or stream online video content. SFV directs consumers back to the content owner's website before playing the content, enabling providers and media creators to build their own traffic and better monetize content. Content owners retain all control over copyrighted material.
If you refer to above post #45 and include Searchforvideo among the group tested on Alexa you will see that Searchforvideo is the traffic leader.
I'd appreciate you adding Searchforvideo to your list.
Posted by: David Clarke | February 15, 2007 9:52 AMThanks very much,
David
Great post, but your information about the Rich Media Advertising is a bit off. AdBrite's only rich media product is their active interstitial. Other than that they provide text, banners, and their new inline and invideo ads. None of these formats is considered "rich media". And as far as I know they do not have any plans to support any additional rich media.
Posted by: Billy | February 15, 2007 10:13 AMFrom the UK is the popular YourKindaTV.com
Posted by: Mike | February 15, 2007 12:26 PMFind Internet TV (http://www.findinternettv.com/) - Provides a searchable directory of sites showing video on the web and a guide of large events online. It covers video-sharing sites and larger content channels such as NCAA, MLB, ABC, ESPN, etc.
Posted by: Curtis Sund | February 15, 2007 1:09 PMEndavo (http://www.endavomedia.com/) - Belongs in the same video streaming category as Akamai, Limelight, and VitalStream. Provides integrated broadband delivery platforms
Mirror Image (http://www.mirror-image.com/) - Same story
Dreamtank (http://www.dreamtank.com/) - Newcomer in the content delivery network area
Another place to look for a list of the sites - over 100 - is at http://www.politicalwarez.com
Posted by: Sanford | February 15, 2007 1:44 PMPlease remember to add Gotuit Media (www.gotuit.com) the leading in-video metasearch technology and social video tagging application.
Posted by: David | February 15, 2007 2:53 PMYou've missed Akimbo - bringing lots of commercial and "long-tail" content to a variety of devices. Akimbo has its own player with RCA, supplies content for AT&T's Homezone, and announced partnerships with Cisco, Sonic Roxio, Sandisk, and Microsoft. Also announced content deal recently with Yahoo.
Posted by: Josh | February 15, 2007 2:58 PMI am surprised you did not include Apple iTunes in the Video eCommerce category. Although iTunes is best known for selling music, it is also the #1 legal online video store.
Posted by: jbl | February 15, 2007 3:23 PMWOW! Thanks all for your suggestions. I honestly haven't had time yet to go through the comments in full, but I will do an update in due course.
I have to say, the title is probably a slight misnomer. We wanted this to be comprehensive list of the *main* online video companies - but not every single one of them (which would probably enter into the thousands!). So please don't be offended if your startup is missing. However we want to ensure we cover the main players, so tell us in the comments if that's the case.
I do want to apologize to Limelight Networks (www.limelightnetworks.com), whose name and URL we got incorrect in the original post. I've fixed that now, also adding Gotuit Media to Intermediaries (another glaring omission).
Posted by: Richard MacManus | February 15, 2007 4:19 PMFantastic summary. As noted by a colleague above, I would add UnCut Video. (Disclosure: I'm the priduct manager for the site). UnCut Video provides instant publishing ... very fast upload and sharing with almost no waiting. It's also a great place for private videos. Today we launched web cam commenting. The upload from mobile phone is fast and easy as well.
Posted by: Cameron Shaw | February 15, 2007 5:21 PMI think there is another section to include and that would be CMS. My company, Castfire has a hosted CMS for podcasting and videocasting that includes media management, assembly, ad insertion, analytics and APIs for integration. Instead of looking @ pre-roll and post-roll, it allows you to place the ads anywhere in the episode. As well, it no longer treats media as stagnant pieces that do not change -- full libraries of audio and video can be changed instantly, enabling the monetization of evergreen content.
Posted by: Brian Walsh | February 15, 2007 5:25 PMAmother p2p video company is NFT
http://www.nft-tv.com/
They do streaming video
Posted by: Matt_ | February 15, 2007 6:11 PMProbably should add vidmeter.com in the search section.
Posted by: Zack Morris | February 15, 2007 6:16 PMtrivialTV. Cataloging full-length TV episodes on the web that you can legally buy, rent or view for free. 26,544 links; 16,576 unique eps; 949 series
Posted by: mike vicic | February 15, 2007 7:05 PMCheck this AOL site...got some kewl features
1.Private video sharing
2.Video comments
http://uncutvideo.aol.com
and many more...
Posted by: Equnioxpradeep | February 16, 2007 12:29 AMJust wanted to add to equinox , we got 'Mobile Submission' on Uncut Videos.
http://uncutvideo.aol.com
Posted by: Jinx | February 16, 2007 12:33 AMA flavour of the french market :
Brainsonic (rich media production and tools)
Posted by: TVnomic | February 16, 2007 1:23 AMDailymotion (the french YouTube)
Eyeka (pictures and video sharing platform)
Gaspanik (Live Web TV)
Glowria (the french Netflix + white brand VOD)
Kewego (white brand video sharing platform)
Moblr (video sharing platform for mobile)
Playfab (podcast aggregator with PC/Mobile synchronisation)
Podemus (podcast directory and tools)
Scroon (video sharing platform for mobile)
Skema (video production and management platform)
Tivipro.tv (B to B Web TV)
Vodeo (documentaries on demand)
Vpod (the french/spanish Brightcove)
Wevod (video production and management platform + video emailing)
If you want to see what the results look like for video hosting, I have a (not recently updated) page of side-by-side comparisons at http://www.beginningwithi.com/vlog/test.html
Posted by: Deirdré Straughan | February 16, 2007 3:32 AMThe number of "hey, you forgot XYZ" just shows how wild and wooly on the online video market has become. Keeping track of all of the sites out there and determining which ones are actually viable would be a full-time job. I appreciate you giving us a list with most of major players.
Posted by: Erik | February 16, 2007 8:57 AMHello, I enjoyed your recent article about the online video industry. I'm the marketing manager for AtomFilms.com and I just wanted to share a little bit about our history with you since we were the first online video site to offer a revenue sharing program to content creators. Since 1998, we've paid over $3 million in royalties to creators. Many of our top contributors have earned five-digit paydays, and a fortunate few have made over $100,000 in royalties – off one hit video! If you've got a few minutes to kill, check us out some time. Thanks!
Posted by: Sarah | February 16, 2007 9:12 AMgreat list. a few sites are missing in the Video eCommerce section.
cinemanow
Posted by: Oliver | February 16, 2007 9:55 AMmovielink
netflix
DayPort? Anyone??
Posted by: thomas | February 16, 2007 11:09 AMThanks everyone for your comments, the list is getting complete with your feedback, we can publish a new list that contains latest updates.
Posted by: Emre Sokullu | February 16, 2007 1:44 PMYou forgot about such wonderful sites/services as panjea, muvee, and one true media.
Posted by: Jason | February 16, 2007 2:49 PMSorry, you are also missing the biggest chinese video sharing site, which is www.Tudou.com, which translates, funnily enough, to potato.
Posted by: Jason | February 16, 2007 2:59 PMNice list, very well categorized. Here's a recently launched video search: http://webmunism.com/vids
Posted by: dotcomrade | February 16, 2007 5:26 PMIt looks like there is a new site coming out that combines video search, user content aggregation (channels) and widgets... looks like a cross between my blog log and vod pod.
As of today they are only taking alpha invites http://www.videosticky.com
Bob
Posted by: bob bennett | February 17, 2007 2:53 AMWhat’s about Mobile 2.0 and the Mobile Internet? There are already a few players in the mobile online video market, like our own company Moblr (http://dev.moblr.com/v1.5/ for the mobile version and http://www.moblr.com for the web version). We have visitors coming from all over the world, sharing and viewing thousands of 3GP videos.
Posted by: Christophe Chatillon | February 17, 2007 5:31 AMRegarding the intermediation section, take a look at the service provided by Akamedia @ www.newspusher.com
Posted by: Lionel | February 17, 2007 6:30 AMKariyer.Net, an online human resources company in Türkiye, accepts video resumes (CV).
Posted by: Mustafa Ulu | February 18, 2007 6:02 AMThis website is in Turkish. http://web3.kariyer.net/kariyerim/videocv/
Check out www.fluendo.com
Posted by: eamonn | February 19, 2007 3:57 AMFluendo is a company specialized in delivering products and consulting services on Unix and Linux multimedia. Our flagship product is our streaming media server
Veoh is a bit different, they don't have a size restriction.
So there are lots of full length movies there. You quickly get tired of 3 minute videos on youtube.
I have watched a few 90 minute documentaries and movies there.
They have a p2p client that can be used to access their videos. But it is crippled as they don't have any bandwidth control (unlike all bit torrent clients)
Posted by: Roger | February 19, 2007 7:24 AM100 :)
Posted by: Emre Sokullu | February 19, 2007 10:50 AMDon't forget SUMO TV:
http://www.sumo.tv/
Posted by: Rob Pongi | February 20, 2007 6:43 AMHere are a few other usful video tools. AlstraSoft Video Share Enterprise has a script for basically creating your own YouTube site. It's available at http://www.alstrasoft.com/videoshare.htm
Bubbleply is a free sevice that allows you to embed a video from YouTube, etc on your page and add annotations including hyperlinks. It's at at http://www.bubbleply.com/default.aspx
Posted by: Doug | February 20, 2007 7:51 AMDon't forget MeeVee (www.meevee.com) on the search side -- TV listings and video combined.
Posted by: neke | February 20, 2007 2:34 PMVmix is ad free and better quality than YouTube. like a cross between MySpace ans YouTube.
http://www.vmix.com/
Posted by: jon | February 20, 2007 2:51 PMBubblePLY is another video tool to help you add comments on top of any online videos. http://www.bubbleply.com
Posted by: six | February 21, 2007 2:20 PMYou forgot the first and biggest video podcast directory.
Posted by: Milton | February 24, 2007 2:30 PM[url]http://www.videopodcasts.tv[/url]
Hereby the correct link: http://www.videopodcasts.tv
Posted by: Milton | February 24, 2007 2:32 PMGreat stuff, some additions:
Pando Networks - consumer P2P platform
Intermediaries/or CDN enablers:
Posted by: Sita | February 25, 2007 9:06 PM- Extend Media
- Entriq
This a must aditionn to this great list
Posted by: Paty | February 28, 2007 5:32 PMhttp://www.onvos.com
Pretty good roundup, but I can't say this covers all the majors, and I wish it had a little more depth. Some sites missed...
Under Video sharing:
There is a great list of sites and comparison at http://www.lifegoggles.com/?p=428
Under Video commerce:
video.aol.com
Under p2p:
Posted by: Nagesh | March 1, 2007 11:13 AMKontiki ( now verisign)
RedSwoosh
Hi, mentioned already http://www.sumo.tv A bit more than just video sharing , we have a full 24hr TV station showcasing the content, stream Mobile TV channels to handsets, wap sites and downloads and SKYPE & Live video to our TV channel. Launched in the UK we are now broadcasting and located in Indian, China and South America as well as the UK and have started our own virtual record label for music content.
Posted by: adam | March 3, 2007 4:14 AMWow ... the sheer number of comments here indicates the power of the online video industry right now, and the absolute melee in the marketplace as every man and his dog rushes to have a service offering.
I think Narrowstep, who are huge in the UK and Europe, are notable for providing the best video quality on the internet. See one of their clients, www.singlemalt.tv, for evidence.
Posted by: Lloyd P | March 8, 2007 4:43 PMFlikzor is a very popular among bloggers
Posted by: Lucas G | March 9, 2007 9:41 AMThis list is great. We launched http://www.OVGuide.com (Online Video Guide) about 6 months ago and had to struggle to find quality video sites to put on it. Our main problem now is keeping up with all the sites. We are one of the leading online video guides and help people find something good to watch online. Time Magazine selected us as one of the top 10 best websites of the year for 2006. We have close to 600 video sites cataloged in 20 different areas.
A trend we are seeing is that people are wanting more production quality commercial sites with a focus on full-length videos. Niche areas, like education, movies, and TV are very popular. More general user-submitted YouTube like video sites, however, appear to be losing popularity compared to the more commercial sites.
Posted by: Eric | March 9, 2007 9:06 PMHi, mentioned already http://www.youzap.de
Posted by: Franz K | March 10, 2007 12:44 PMThis is where you have a online remote control for easy cahnnel hopping on WebTV. It works, but now only in german